Wednesday, April 6, 2016

1. Dreamed that, my sister Melissa informs me there's a contest where they're asking people to come up with a recipe for Australian Ramen noodles. I have an idea for it in my mind. It involves a broth that's somewhat sour. I had it in Australia. But then I start thinking just because I had it in Australia, it doesn't mean it's Australian. They probably want something that has more of an Aussie theme. I can't think of any good ideas.
Ramen noodles were on my mind because Jack bought some when we went to a Mexican grocery store this weekend. They had a larger variety of flavors than the grocery store where we usually shop.

It's kind of like my dream, though. We bought Ramen noodles at a Mexican grocery store, but they're not a Mexican food. They had a lot of food besides Mexican food there. The week before we went to the Korean grocery store, and there was a lot of food that's not Korean. It's because they're regular grocery stores, and not speciality shops.

I don't know if speciality shop is the right word. I'm picturing small stores that people don't use for their usual weekly grocery shopping. They're there for people to pick up a few special items. In London, we went to an Australian food shop like that. In DFW, we have a British food shop. I don't think British people would go there to get their groceries. They'd probably just go to pick up a few things they're homesick for. And people like us go, so we can experience small samples of British snacks.

The Korean and Mexican stores are real grocery stores. They're different from the mainstream grocery stores, because you can find a larger amount of Mexican or Korean food there. But then they also have a lot of other things.

Oscar dumped Maddie when she had cancer. It seemed to me it was because he lost interest in her, but he later blamed it on bad timing.

Bad timing? Because she has cancer?

Maddie still has cancer, but the chemo worked well this time, and it looks like she's going to recover. Now Oscar is showing interest again.

What the hell?

Oscar couldn't be with her when the going went rough, but now that she's doing well, his feelings have magically returned.

What really boggles my mind is that Maddie is okay with all this. Well, she doesn't even know that Oscar has romantic feelings for her, but she has feelings for him. I think, though, that she hopes he has feelings for her.

4. Decided it might make a little sense.

If Maddie has strong feelings for Oscar, she might want him at any cost. She might want him so badly that she can forgive for him being a fair-weathered boyfriend.

Then the show cuts to a scene with policer officers being killed in cold blood.

This series really shows the dark side of humanity.

10. Thought of the various reasons why humans do extremely horrible things to each other.

Off the top of my head, I'm thinking there's A) pure cruelty—the enjoyment of seeing someone else suffer B) Senselessness and a lack of empathy—using people for a means to an end. C) Feeling there's no other choice. It's a requirement.

With the prison guard tempting Fraser with cocaine, it seemed very much like A. Although there could have also been greed involved. He probably wanted to make a sale, but at the same time, he enjoyed making Fraser squirm. He liked the idea of getting Fraser back on drugs.

11. Decided that A is often combined with B and C.

I think most Nazis were C, but then some of them were also A.

12. Thought that criminals who killed the cops were mostly B. They shot the police for revenge, because some other cops had killed one of their friends. The shooters MIGHT have enjoyed seeing the police beg for their life and then fall down dead. I think for the most part, though, it was about a means to an end.

13. Tried to think of examples of A that's not mixed with B and C.

At first I thought of serial killers. Maybe sometimes they kill just for the thrill and enjoyment of murdering someone. But I think sometimes they might feel they're serving some kind of purpose.

I'm thinking of the Snowtown Murders. They thought they were ridding the world of pedaphiles and homosexuals.

It's hard to know, though, whether people truly feel they have a reason for their abuse and/or homicide, or whether they're just making up a reason to justify their actions.

14. Saw an actor that looked familar to me.

Fortunately the character's name was mentioned, so it was easy to find him on IMDb.

It's David Serafin from Neighbours! He played Dimato, the car thief guy.

The Tyrone Lindqvist looks like the one in the film...maybe? Or at least both Lindqvists look stereotypically Swedish.

28. Found a blog post from someone who worked on the production design for "Den Sista Galaxonaut".

The film was made in a studio in Redfern. So, at least I was right about it not being made in Sweden.

29. Continued to wonder if the Tyrone Lindqvist from the film is the same one in the musical group.

I glanced at a few articles/interviews about Rufus, and didn't see any mention of "Den Sista Galaxonaut".

Maybe the two Lindqvists are not one and the same. But I don't know for sure.

30. Felt embarrassed about the man-on-the-moon thing. I can't believe I started to question the Neil Armstrong thing.

Here's my excuse. It's the whole ethnocentric American thing. We're taught that one of ours is the best thing and the first that, blah, blah, blah. But then you learn, no...it really wasn't an American who was the first. It was someone else.

But really. The moon?

I don't know what I was thinking.

Well...maybe I was thinking that Sven Larsson was the first person to orbit the moon, and Neil Armstrong was the first to step on it.

Actually, I wasn't thinking that, though....at least not consciously. It was more like I was wondering why this Tropfest film was contradicting something I had always believed to be true.

That DOES happen. You spend your whole life thinking Pluto is a planet. Then someone comes along and tells you it's not.

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